Event Details: HBS Colloquium: Where are our Children in a Successful Aging Society? with Linda Fried

Description:

Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH is currently the Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Fried is a leader in the fields of epidemiology and
geriatrics. She has dedicated her career to the science of healthy
aging, particularly the prevention of frailty and disability, and design
of approaches that will strengthen the benefits to all of being an
aging society. The latter includes the design of health-promoting
activities and roles for older adults that solve major societal needs.
Dr. Fried co-founded Experience Corps, a community-based senior
volunteer program designed to support the academic success of children
while also serving as a health promotion program for older adults. Dr.
Fried's scientific career has defined the phenotype of frailty as a new
clinical syndrome, provided evidence as to its causes and identified
opportunities for prevention. Her research has also identified
approaches to prevent cardiovascular disease and the loss of
independence with aging.

Dr. Fried is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the
APHA Archstone Award, the U.S. national Bridge Builders Award, the
Maxwell Pollock Award of the Gerontological Society of America, and has
been named a "Living Legend in Medicine" by the U.S. Congress. Dr.
Fried is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences'
Institute of Medicine and of the Association of American Physicians
where she serves on the governing Council. She is a member of the World
Economic Forum Global Agenda Council and Council on an Aging World, and
of the MacArthur Network on an Aging Society.

Previously, Dr. Fried served as the Mason F. Lord Professor of Geriatric
Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, with appointments
in the School of Medicine, and Bloomberg School of Public Health and
School of Nursing. She directed The Johns Hopkins Center of Excellence
for Aging Research, the Center on Aging and Health, and the Division of
Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, and led major multidisciplinary
research programs on the causes and consequences cardiovascular disease,
frailty, cognitive impairment and disability in older adults, and
approaches to prevention.

Dr. Fried received her MD from Rush Medical College in Chicago and her
MPH from Johns Hopkins. She trained in internal medicine at Rush
Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago and in general
internal medicine, cardiovascular epidemiology and geriatrics at Johns
Hopkins.